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Promoter Kramer, sporting an even bigger "big game" than he had as a topflight amateur six years ago, gave Sedgman his tennis lesson in the first match at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Time & again Sedgman slammed over shots that looked like sure winners. More often than not, Strategist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Old Pros. V. New | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

Army policy requires that Puerto Ricans and KATOUSA be dispersed through squads and platoons alongside continental Americans, rather than placed in separate units. The results in enforced understanding and companionship are often good and warming. But the language difficulty is serious. The result at the front is that squad and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: THE FIGHTING, WAITING EIGHTH ARMY | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

Dr. George van Biesbroeck, Belgian-born and 72, was a happy astronomer this week. Stroking his white goatee and skipping cheerfully around his office in Wisconsin's Yerkes Observatory, he told how he had checked with elegant precision the basic scientific law of the universe: Einstein's relativity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Decision in Khartoum | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

Hidden Assets. By taking on such jobs, the 104-year-old Mosler Safe Co. has become the world's largest safemaker. It built the huge vaults at Fort Knox, designed the complex system of precision locks which close the cell blocks of Alcatraz Prison. So many Tokyo banks installed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Protection, Inc. | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

Lowenstein was a specialist in precision passing from his tailback spot.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-Grid Captain Lowenstein Picked for 3rd Army Team | 12/16/1952 | See Source »

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